The late Dr. W. E. Sangster went to visit a dying woman in a hospital. He said to her, “Are you ready to meet God? What will you say when you meet him?”
She held up her worn hands and said, “I am a widow. I have brought up five children, so I have no time for church or the Bible or anything religious. But I have done my best for my children, and when I see God I will just hold up these hands and he will look at them and he will understand.”
Now, what would you have said to a woman like that?
Well, Dr. Sangster just said to her, “You are too late, my dear, you are too late.”
She said, “What do you mean?”
And he replied, “Well, there is somebody who has got in front of you, and he is holding up his hands in front of God, and God has eyes for no other?”
She said again, “What do you mean?”
He told her, “Don’t put your trust in your hands – put your trust in his hands.”
–David Pawson, Unlocking the Bible
